How do you spoil your chickens?

[Fluffy_Moth_With_Silkies]

Well the title explains it. What do you do to spoil your babies? Any suggestions appreciated!

 

[Callender Girl]

If you count spending too much money at the grocery store for treats, then I'm in.

I'm always on the lookout for cheap grapes. But, during the last heat wave, I was buying watermelons at Aldi to give to the flocks. Last week, one of the cashiers at Aldi remembered that, and she directed me to their GIANT pumpkins, which were priced at less than $4. At least, I can use the pumpkin as fall decor for a while before it becomes poultry feed.

Also, I have a house hen, Dottie (long story, can't integrate her outdoors) and I found a treat roller at TSC that holds mealworms. She adores her toy.

 

[Fluffy_Moth_With_Silkies]

Also, I have a house hen, Dottie (long story, can't integrate her outdoors) and I found a treat roller at TSC that holds mealworms. She adores her toy.

I've never heard of a chicken toy that holds mealworms! I'll see if I can get one.

 

[Callender Girl]

It's called a chicken treat roller, made by ChickenWARE and probably cost less than $5. It's a hard plastic tube, with a removable cap, and it has little slots that let the chicken see the mealworms, scratch and peck at the toy as she rolls it until she gets the food.

 

[Sally PB]

My chickens get weeds from the garden, kitchen trimmings, and their number 1 treat is their regular feed, wetted into a mash. Sometimes that has stuff mixed in with it, mostly just plain. During the insanely hot weather, they'll get chilled watermelon or grapes.

About once every two weeks, they get a mix of mealworms and BOSS. When the mealworms are gone, I won't buy any more. They can get a handful of BOSS instead.

Even more rare are bits of bread.

 

[The Moonshiner]

By never eating them.
I'm sure that counts, right?

 

[Happy hen lover]

I wet their food in am and add some form of protein. ( Extra eggs, freezer burned meats, expired meat from our local food bank that we work at, fish food)
In pm I gather eggs and throw sm amounts of scratch, boss, fish food and large handful of oyster shell on ground .
And vegetables, weeds, fruits, garden stuff, etc.
Right now we're into watermelon rind time. My hubby made a tether ball thingy out of heel end of a watermelon! That was FUN?? LOL

 

[ArizonaSky]

I do that, too. The wet feed is considered a treat to them. If I am late, my rooster calls to remind me!

 

[Shabby Chic-Hens]

By never eating them.
I'm sure that counts, right?

It does not.

 

[The Moonshiner]

It does not.